DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 October 1919, Page 7

DOMINION NEWS.

M WRONG MAN ABRESTED, By Telegraph.—Press Asßwifttiof ' , Wanganui, October 20 There was an unusual occurrence t.ti the Magistrate's Court to-day wlie?. q, man was charged with tbeft froav •« fellow 'boarder. The prosecuting ness immediately- said, that it wa." the light man. It transpired that s summons had been served by, mistake in New Plymouth. The magistrate said he could not understand how ths mistake was made, i He dismissed the case and allowed accused 30s costs. THE APPEAL COURT. f Wellington, October 20. In the Appeal Court the Marconi case was mentioned and Mr Myers stated that he was prepared to accept ths suggestion of the court as to the new trial of this matter. This means that the judgments of the Chief Justice are set aside and proceedings will therefore begin de novo in the Supreme Court. . PENALTIEsTFoT^TWO-OP." Wanganui, October 20. The sequel to the raid on the "twoop" school occurred in the Magistrate's Court to-day, jvhen about forty persons were charged with having played a game of chance in a public place. Practically all pleaded guilty, and. fines amounting to £2 were imposed in the majority of cases on those who appeared, and £2 10s on those who did not appear. In several cases two informations were laid and in these the extra ten shillings fine was imposed. One young man, who had been previously convicted of a similar offence, was fined £5, and two men, who acted as ring-masters on the occasions when the police were watching, were each fined £lO. 4 A SERIOUS CHARGE. Palmerston N., October 20. In the Magistrate's Court tn-day, before Mr Stout, S.M., n middle-aged man, Charles Crockery, stableman by occupation, was charged with having, on or about October 13, attempted to procure certain persons, Henry Joseph Lewis and Alfred Mervyn Capp, to murder Thos. Quirk. On the application of the police he was remanded till October 28, and bail was refused.